about OBJECTs_JL
Joel Lamere has dedicated his professional life to the deep comprehension of digital design and fabrication instruments, to the fundamental shifts they enable, and to the set of possible futures they engender.
Objects_JL is the current platform for such commitments.
Prior to establishing Objects_JL, Joel was the Director of Graduate Programs and an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture (U-SoA). There, he also formed and directed Future Objects at U-SoA, a laboratory for design that speculates on the near and distant future of our built world.
Before his detour through Miami, Joel spent over a decade as a core faculty member of MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning, where he was named Homer A. Burnell Professor from 2014-2017. There, he taught a range of core and elective seminars and studios, many of which focused on the relationship between geometry as a fundamental source of disciplinary knowledge, and emerging digital design processes.
Joel has received numerous awards and been exhibited internationally, both for his independent practice and for the work of GLD Architecture, which he co-founded in 2010 with partner Cynthia Gunadi. Through GLD, Joel and Cynthia translated experimental methods into conventional architectural practice, and tested research at proto-architectural scales in the realm of public art.
Prior to launching his design career, Joel was the recipient of the Machette Prize for Excellence in Philosophy from Boston University. He received his MArch from Harvard GSD, where he graduated with distinction and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal.
Joel Lamere’s scholarship re-centers geometry as essential knowledge in our discipline, offering a necessary corrective to problematic trends. Fluency in geometry enables the critical embrace of technology, and simultaneously offers an apparatus for understanding form that is neither regressive nor merely accepts the inexhaustible output of computational methods.
This scholarship informs his teaching career, throughout which he has pursued pedagogical strategies that deploy longstanding disciplinary tools as agents to question contemporary assumptions.
